Alumnus is new director of undergraduate admission

Gosselin. Image: Peter M. Julian

Boston College has named Grant Gosselin ’97, MA’02, director of undergraduate admission. Before occupying his new office in Devlin Hall on July 23, he served the previous four years as vice president of enrollment and dean of admission and student aid at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts.

Throughout his undergraduate years at Boston College, the former finance major worked in the Office of Undergraduate Admission, leading prospective students on campus tours. He returned to the office in 1999, as senior assistant director of undergraduate admission and then associate director of marketing and international admission, and earned his master’s in higher education. From 2006 to 2014 he served as Babson College’s dean of admission and, from 2012 to 2014, as its first vice president of enrollment.

When Gosselin, a native of South Hampton, New Hampshire (pop. 800), applied to Boston College in 1993, he was one of 13,112 applicants, from whom the University accepted 47 percent. In choosing the current freshman class (the Class of 2022), he notes, Boston College accepted 27 percent from among 31,123 applicants. “Between the emphasis on rankings, the market crash of 2008, and the rapid development of technology, the number of considerations students and their families make and the number of schools they apply to keeps growing,” Gosselin says. “The center point of our decisions will continue to be the students, and how we can best help them navigate the introspective, emotional, critical process of applying to college.”

Gosselin succeeds John L. Mahoney Jr. ’79, director of undergraduate admission since 1990, who was named vice provost for enrollment management in August.